The Public Health Dashboard

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Resources to help day-to-day public health work

Role Descriptions

Dealing with Outbreaks

Posted September 2011

Emergency Planning

Posted January 2010

Setting up a surveillance system for communicable disease

Posted December 2009

Public Health Commissioning

Posted October 2009, Updated January 2010

Communication Skills

How to change attitudes and behaviours

Posted October 2009

Health Information and Intelligence

Social Marketing

How social marketing change behaviours

Posted October 2011

A Futurist's Toolbox

Methodologies from the Cabinet Office to help forecast (predict) the future

Posted December 2009

Short notes on interpreting studies: bias, chance, confounding and causation

Posted December 2009

Useful sources of data for PCTs

This was sent to me by a colleague and is a good list of available sources.

Posted October 2009

Links

Care Quality Commission

Department of Health

Healthcare Resource Groups (HRG)

Health Protection Agency

Health Survey for England (OPCS)

Health and Safety Executive

Hospital Episode Statistics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

National Centre for Health Outcomes Development

NHS Information Centre

Office of National Statistics (ONS)

Public Health Interventions Cost Effectiveness Database

Public health observatories

WHO

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Views expressed in this website are those of the author only. It is not associated with the National Health Service (NHS) or any other public bodies.